Speaking Engagements Jan & Feb 2010

Posted By Ric Vatner on January 8, 2010

I know I haven’t posted anything since mid November. I really thought I would catch up in the Christmas break but December was a blitz and I ended up sleeping through most of my holiday. I only started to feel human again today at the end of my first week back at work.

I haven’t even written up my New Year resolutions yet although I have given them a lot of thought this last week or so. I was going to write a post on how to make the exercise worthwhile but I may have missed the boat on that one for this year. What do you think?

I’ve got some interesting speaking engagements coming up over the next few weeks. On the 18th January I am giving a talk to 24 Chinese school principals who are visiting Australia on a study tour. The topic is Confucius / Confucian Philosophy. I hope I pass.

On the 22nd January I am giving a talk to another group from China. These are Chinese CEO’s and I will be wearing my business hat and talking about Internet marketing, Social Media and eSTV.

Finally on Tuesday 2nd of February I’m debating Stephen from Ariel Bookshop at the Philosophy Corner monthly meeting which is held at Ariel Bookshop, 42 Oxford St Paddington. This is our first meeting for 2010 and promises to be a real corker.  The topic is “American Dominance of world affairs is over and it is a Spent Force” or something similar to that.

Stephen, who lived in the States for a while and is a passionate supporter, will speak for America and I am arguing that they are a spent force.  I’ve been boning up on my Noam Chomsky but there is a lot of other historical and economic material that I plan to use in support of my argument but please feel free to leave me any ideas you have as well. Post your comment below.

PS you are welcome to join us at Ariel Bookshop if you are in Sydney on the 2nd February. There is no charge, we start at 7 pm and there will be drinks and canapes afterwards. The topic is open to discussion by all attendees and the networking afterwards is usually a lot of fun.

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Ric Vatner
Hi, I've been in Sales and Marketing all my business life but I have also published various magazines from time to time including an audio magazine called BAC to Business (pronounced Back to Business). I've spoken at conferences around the world usually on Marketing but also on Business, Philosophy, Education, Insurance, Media and quite a few other topics, in fact speaking is the major reason I have visited so many countries. Some of my major achievements have been; I sold over $100,000,000 of paid Whole of Life Assurance in two years for Prudential while simultaneously making the Top 5 with four or five other insurance companies in the late 1980's and early Nineties, I won the inaugeral Holbien Scholarship for the Pacific Region with my paper on the future of Newspapers in 2000, I launched the only web site I know of that started its own newspaper with content from the web site and sold it at a profit within six months during the Tech Crash in 2002. And more recently I launched ESTV an online TV Style magazine which has a neat twist, it is the Internet version of a local paper - TV style. In the near future I will launch Best Deals Australia - a unique Shopping Mall - Why unique? - Ah you will have to see it to understand. In the mean time please check out www.estv.com.au or follow us at www.twitter.com/estv. BFN

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